Hello All

Anyone have any thoughts/pointers on processing email.

I have emails which I can get via POP3 or straight from '/var/spool/mail'
I'd like to parse each individual email and grep for the status/return code to see if there was a soft bounce (mailserver down?) or a hard bounce (user or domain does not exist)

Before I begin the first line of code I'm about to search the CPAN (I *think* Perl would probably be best for this task) and wondered if anyone had done something similar or could point straight to a module.

Thanks
jfp

We use a mixture of procmail, spamassasin and Perl scripts - the first two to do a lot of the standard stuff, and perl scripts within procmail to look at the "unsure" cases in a bit more depth.  In each of these cases, the filtering and any re-routing or /dev/nulling is done before the mail hits the mailbox on the server.

Ar you still using the same ISP that we are / do you have the ability to pre-process stuff in that way?

Sounds like you need this...

http://search.cpan.org/~freeside/Mail-DeliveryStatus-BounceParser-1.4/BounceParser.pm

I expect you've been to CPAN already by now though?

B

Two excellent responses, like I expect anything else form this forum.

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We use a mixture of procmail, spamassasin and Perl scripts Are you still using the same ISP that we are

This is for work rather than personal so its a differnent host, but I do have root so I'll be searching out a few procmail recipes to help routing the mail

Custard, thanks
I had searched CPAN, though obviously no well enough, that one passed me by.
I did a search on "email" and started from there, now searching on "email bounce" brings your recommendation up first time....doh!

Thanks all, I'll have fun playing today
jfp

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